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Peace River Corridor Provincial Park is a 2014 ha provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the banks of the Peace River, at the confluence with Kiskatinaw River, downstream from Taylor. It is in the Boreal White and Black Spruce biogeoclimatic zone within the Peace Lowlands ecosection.
Peace River Museum, Archives & Mackenzie Centre: Located 99th Street and 103rd Avenue, the museum contains over 10,000 artifacts and contains a fur trade gallery, aboriginal artifacts and the Peace River Gallery which documents the history of settlement in Peace River. The wheelshaft from the famous steamer D.A Thomas is located on the grounds.
The Peace River Wildland Provincial Park preserves the forest and grassland habitats within the Peace River valleys since these areas are important wildlife corridors for deer, elk, wolf, bears and is also home to a wide variety of birds. [1] National Historic Site, Fort Fork Site is also located in the park on the east bank of the Peace River. [2]
Wilderness Park is a municipally owned park with a set of two man-made lakes stocked with rainbow trout and interconnected trails. It is located on a quarter section on Range Road 233, approximately 6 kilometres northeast of the town of Grimshaw, north of highway 2A (Roma Drive); or approximately 18 kilometres west of the town of Peace River, south of Highway 2.
The Peace River Country (or Peace Country; French: Région de la Rivière-de-la-paix) is an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River in Canada.It extends from northwestern Alberta to the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, where a certain portion of the region is also referred to as the Peace River Block.
The Peace River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of middle Albian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the Peace River , and was first described on the banks of the river, downstream from the Smoky River confluence to the mouth of the Notikewin River by McConnell in 1893.
The Grenfell was one of the vessels that shipped cargo on the Peace River. The Peace River has two navigable sections, separated by the Vermilion Chutes, near Fort Vermilion. [7] The first steam-powered vessel to navigate the Peace River was the Grahame, a Hudson's Bay Company vessel built at Fort Chipewyan, on Lake Athabasca.
The fort was located southwest of the present-day town of Peace River, Alberta. [1] No known physical remains of the fort have survived, but there is an archaeological site there marked by a semi-circular depression and a cairn. The site was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1928. [3] Fort Fork Cairn